Bermuda has signed a Tax Information Agreement, or TIEA, with the Republic of Indonesia at a ceremony in London on Wednesday, June 22, attended by Bermuda’s Premier, the Hon. Paula A. Cox, JP, MP, and H.E. Yuri Octavian Thamrin, Ambassador …
Guernsey announced that it signed a bilateral Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) with Indonesia last week. The Chief Minister, Lyndon Trott and the Republic of Indonesia UK Ambassador, His Excellency Yuri O Thamrin, executed the treaty. Guernsey has now signed …
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Heavy rains and flooding in Australia’s key coal-producing Queensland state have impacted mining operations and brought parts of the coal infrastructure, including rail and ports, to a standstill, operators said on Wednesday. Dalrymple Bay Coal terminal and Gladstone Ports, two …
Somali pirates have released the Marida Marguerite, a German-operated chemical tanker after receiving a $5.5 million ransom, the Kenya-based East African Seafarers Assistance Program said on Tuesday. The tanker was seized in May and released on Monday. Here are details …
Droughts and deluges in Australia, snow in Europe and cold snaps in the United States are pushing up prices of a range of commodities from sugar to heating oil and soybeans. Australia typically ranks as second in the league of …
Suspected Somali pirates hijacked a Bangladeshi ship carrying nickel ore in the Arabian Sea and appear headed to the lawless East African nation, officials said Monday. The Bangladesh-flagged M.V. Jahan Moni appears to have been hijacked Sunday off the Indian …
Mount Merapi, Indonesia’s most volatile volcano, unleashed another cloud of searing gas as rescuers pulled more bodies from a village smothered a week ago by eruptions. The death toll from a series of blasts passed 240 on Sunday. Saturday’s blast …
A.M. Best Europe – Rating Services Limited has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘B+’ (Good) and the issuer credit ration of “bbb-” of Guernsey-based Connaught Insurance Company Limited, the captive insurance company of Thomas Greg & Sons Limited …
Armistice Day/Veteran’s Day – the “war to end war;” the dead, the wounded and the missing. Almost faded from memory now – 92 years after it ended – the “Great War,” World War I. The consequences have been unfolding ever …
